@KnowingBetterYT Seeing a KnowingBetter tweet in the wild is like seeing your high school teacher at the supermarket 😅
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Declan McKelvey-Hembree
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Declan McKelvey-Hembree
@dexo568
Senior Developer @160over90. Opinions my own.
가입일 Haziran 2009
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This is funny until you see the date, do the math, and realize he nailed it.
Alex Predhome, Vagueposter@Predamame
Revisiting this one
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@valigo The complaint about how he couldn't figure out in 20 seconds what the guy's education was, followed by his first piece of advice being to delete the opening summary which includes the phrase "PhD in Cryptography/Microelectronics" O.O
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If you still don't hate recruiters enough, or if you are still not convinced that hr is the most incompetent, harmful, and entitled industry in tech, just watch this video.
But TLDR is "I have 20 seconds to find 5 keywords in your CV, but nobody taught me how to use Ctrl+F"
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I wrote a short story about institutional memory, that which grows in the places where it used to be, and a part on your car that has been there since 1957 and does nothing.
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@Siwelthelongboi @JacobAShell The opposite of a greedy approach is a "dynamic approach". Example: To save money on food, greedy approach might be to find deepest discounts at grocery store, while dynamic approach might be to start a backyard farm -- more expensive start but might lead to better outcome.
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@Siwelthelongboi @JacobAShell This isn't exactly it, but in CS we have the idea of a "greedy approach": the belief that if you take the individual correct decisions, you will arrive at the long term best outcome. Much effort is spent deciding if the "greedy approach" is actually true for specific problems.
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BTW the remains of this poor woman who went missing in the Tasmanian wilderness were finally found.
This was thanks in part to the search organizing efforts of the Youtuber, Rob Parsons, as well as many other volunteers.
The Belgian backpacker, Celine Cremer, made a terribly unlucky sequence of decisions, all of which would have seemed quite reasonable in the moment, but built upon each other in such a way that it got her lost and walking in the wrong direction to find civilization again.
Lots of little lessons if you follow the case, but the *big* lesson here is never, ever go off-trail if all you have with you as a navigating device is your phone. Better to stay put on the trail overnight, and risk the elements, than do that.
Jacob Shell@JacobAShell
I've been following a Youtube series by a Tasmanian filmmaker, Rob Parsons (below right), who's been spending the last 2 years helping search teams figure out what happened to a hiker from Belgium named Celine Cremer (below left) who went missing in the Tasmanian forest in summer 2023. Parsons' episodes usually involve him painstakingly crawling about the ultra-dense Tasmanian forest floor peering under fallen logs, finding nothing, updating the search teams' common map to show a new area has been checked. But recently...Parsons and the other searchers (mostly Australians, with some Belgians there too) actually found something: Cremer's phone. In the episode where it happens (link next post) you can see the moment when everyone in the search group learns the phone has been found: intense emotion breaks through their normally stoic demeanor. Some of these searchers are Tasmanian locals who've been searching the area on a constant basis for over 2 years, their perseverence bordering on obsession reminding me quite a lot of the Joan Lindsay Australian "lost hiker" story "Picnic at Hanging Rock." Watching the Youtube series, one senses this is partly about "Anglos" on far side of the world coming to terms with their actually very alien forest. At any rate, it's a rare case where something on Youtube is achieving something, the niche culture actually goes somewhere real, rather than functioning as mere grift. Parsons' Youtube channel helped raise interest in and build multinational community around the search efforts, and contributed to a real thing happening in the recovery of the woman's phone. Now that the phone has been found, it seems very likely that more will be found soon, and it will become clear what really happened to Celine Cremer.
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@9mmsmg I tried to eat
the strawberry
that was in
my wife's bowl
and which
she was probably
not intending
for the dog
Forgive me
I wanted to take
a sad strawberry
floor photo
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>wife is eating bowl of strawberries
>ask if there are anymore
>no
>get sad
>see one remaining strawberry
>it's huge
>say yoink and snatch the last strawberry from her bowl.
>immediately flies through the air
>take woe is me sad floor strawberry photo
>go to pick it up and wash it, then eat it
>dog eats it
>I have no strawberries
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@Rutras3000 @Aranwe9378 @alexia_moi_voss Hmmm... The meaning of "VTuber" comes from use — so if, say, someone wins an award for "Best VTuber" and is widely referred to as a VTuber by the media... *thinking*
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@Aranwe9378 @alexia_moi_voss Of course you can type however you want, just don't expect to be taken seriously lmfao. Oh and a hint for you: the actual meaning of words comes from use, not just pure etymology.
merriam-webster.com/wordplay/words…
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Ok, I stayed out of it because I didn’t care. But now I’ve seen several clips of this guy and I now have an opinion on it.
1) I do not believe it was a “bit” as others described. I do think he has a disdain for vtubers after seeing not only this clip but several others.
And 2) despite what he claims, the mere fact that he even puts a filter over his face, and as a result it’s animated, making a virtual avatar, does, by its very definition, make him a Vtuber.
So he hates himself.
Also, this person presenting the award, clearly has a disdain for vtubers as well. The whole thing was a sham, and intended to be insulting.
FalseEyeD 👾 TVS@FalseEyeD
Following days of backlash, TheBurntPeanut has blamed anger directed toward ironmouse as coming from "half the VTuber community", describing them as "40 year old men cosplaying as 15 year old anime girls".
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@Anonysus_ @mstiefvater Devil's Flute Murders by Seishi Yokomizo!
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I've been reading a lot of novels from the 50s and 60s lately, and I'm having a good time, mostly, but it's remarkable how often the pleasant narrators—both in domestic lit and in translation—will suddenly go all "He needed to unwind; he longed for a cigarette or to kill a hooker or to toss a ball back and forth"
well, ok
are these the only options
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@Ropespinner2 @paulnovosad Used to teach CS. The problem is that all remediation has opportunity cost. If half the class doesn't understand, worth the time to reteach, but if 2/30 kids don't get it, you can't go back over it. Fixed # of days to cover material. Teachers care, just have finite time.
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Been saying this for years.
Why do so many people believe they “can’t do math”?
Because at some point in their deveopment, they miss a concept, they don’t learn a key concept, and the train keeps moving on and they just get further and further behind, more and more bewildered.
And ultimately they give up.
When all they needed was for someone to recognize what they’d miss and take a moment to show them how it’s done.
Tragic, but that is the nature of public schooling.
The teachers have zero investment in the students actually learning and becoming capable. They don’t see students or parents as their clients or people they need to please.
We need to stop sending our children, our most precious resource, to get their most crucial need, an education, from what basically amounts to the DMV.
Are we stupid? Maybe.
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What many ppl don’t get:
Once you miss a concept in math—maybe you don’t quite get how functions work—you’re *screwed*, unless you do a hardcore catchup boot camp, in which case you’ll be fine.
But schools don’t do this— they keep advancing. Only parents offer this service.
brian@bdguan
all my life i've been told that i'm naturally gifted at math because i'm chinese. straight A student. math major at ucla. but here's what people don't know: when i was in 8th grade, i got a B+ in geometry. my dad said "that's unacceptable", bought a geometry textbook, and proceeded to assign me daily problems for 6 months. then i got good at geometry. i wasn't born gifted at math(ok maybe a little), i just grew up in an environment where being good at math was a requirement. this book is filled with extra math problems my dad assigned me. and i hated him for it. it took me 10+ years to realize how thankful i am that he pushed me like that. how that was simply his love language.
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@darkprometheus1 @ElifNull @mehdirhasan @JDVance @StephenM The turnaround from "we're not gonna double down and defend them" to someone doubling down to defend a heinous quote is only 1 reply, poetry 😅
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@dexo568 @ElifNull @mehdirhasan @JDVance @StephenM Literally that's how women are these days. You can pay 5 dollars to watch women stick things in their ass.
Do you think this world has some type of moral compass?
On of the most sold books to women right now are books about women and beastlilty 🤣🤣
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Hey @JDVance and @StephenM we’ve found some clear demonization and incitement! And, you’ll never guess, it’s on your side:
POLITICO@politico
EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat. Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇 politico.com/news/2025/10/1…
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@ElifNull @mehdirhasan @JDVance @StephenM Sir, you literally heard a guy say, on tape, that when he meets a woman for the first time, he "[doesn't] even wait. And when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. ... Grab 'em by the pussy. You can do anything." and you elected that guy President. Twice.
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@mehdirhasan @JDVance @StephenM The difference is when this is confirmed to be true, we’re not gonna double down and defend them. Will expunge them.
We’re not gonna try to vote them into office, we’re not gonna say “it’s fine that he wants his opponents dead and dreams about murdering children.”
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The problem with playing board games online is that you don't get to see the moment the light leaves their eyes
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Human brains aren't built for the modern world, being online means I have to learn that the Overton window has now shifted to include literal Nazis and then in the same day I also have to learn what a vtuber is
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@False_Shadows @hutchinson Hopefully I can explain what you're misunderstanding. Debt is our *cumulative* budget shortfall, while deficit is our *current* comparison of cash inflow to outflow. No one has reduced the debt since Clinton, but your chart shows Dems reducing the deficit while Rs increase it.
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The last 4 Republican presidents increased the federal deficit.
The last 3 democratic presidents reduced the federal deficit.
Those are just facts.
Leader John Thune@LeaderJohnThune
It is rich to hear Democrats all of a sudden concerned about debt and deficits.
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@charliekilo552 @VigilantFox Trump knows when Russia was expelled.Its you who doesn’t it appears.
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He went off-script—and exposed everything.
At the G7 in Canada, President Trump made sure every second counted—dropping major revelations on trade, foreign policy, and the future of mass deportations.
But the biggest truth bomb?
He called out Obama and Trudeau directly—for pushing Russia away and triggering a global realignment.
🧵 THREAD
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@metrolosangeles Just FYI-- visible, slightly scary sparking whenever a train goes by at first eastbound power pole east of expo/bundy station.
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Declan McKelvey-Hembree 리트윗함
My neighbor put a plastic skeleton on the apartment stairs and it's human-shaped enough that I've reflexively apologized to it while walking around it three times this month
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